We have now traced the details of the prophet's message of doom. Fulfilment followed fast upon the heels of prediction, till Jeremiah rather interpreted than foretold the thick-coming disasters. When his book was compiled, the prophecies were already, as they are now, part of the history of the last days of Judah. The book became the record of this great tragedy, in which these prophecies take the place of the choric odes in a Greek drama.
[306] Characteristic Expressions, p. 269.
[307] i. 10.
[308] i. 15.
[309] i. 7. The word for "child" (na'ar) is an elastic term, equalling "boy" or "young man," with all the range of meaning possible in English to the latter phrase.
[310] Cf. the Book of Jonah.
[311] xv. 1.
[312] Driver, _Introduction_, p. 242.
[313] "Church" is used, in the true Catholic sense, to embrace all Christians.
[314] xxvii. 18.
[315] xxv. 5, xxxv. 15.
[316] xxvi. 3, xxxvi. 2.
[317] Chap. XI.
[318] Hosea ix. 7.
[319] xxiii. 12.
[320] Isa. xiv. 31.
[321] xxv. 1-14: "first," _i.e._, in time, not in the order of chapters in our Book of Jeremiah.
[322] xxii. 25. Jehoiachin (Kings, Chronicles, and Jer. lii. 31) is also called Coniah (Jer. xxii. 24, 28, xxxvii. 1) and Jeconiah (Chronicles, Esther, Jer. xxiv. 1, xxvii. 20, xxviii. 4, xxix. 2). They are virtually forms of the same name, the "Yah" of the Divine Name being prefixed in the first and affixed in the last two.
[323] xxi. 7, xxviii. 14.
[324] Habakkuk i. 6, 7.
[325] xix. 9.
[326] R.V. margin.
[327] iv. 21.
[328] xxiii. 12.
[329] xxiii. 15.
[330] xxi. 3-6.
[331] xxxvii. 10.
[332] Matt. xxiii. 35.
[333] xxxv. 17: cf. xix. 15, xxxvi. 31.
[334] xxxiv. 21.
[335] xxiii. 33, 34.
[336] xxxiv. 2, 22, xxxvii. 8.
[337] vii. and xxvi.
[338] vi. 5.
[339] xx. 5.
[340] Tobit xii. 13: cf. ii.
[341] xxv. 10.
[342] ix. 11, x. 22.
[343] xxv. 9, 10.
[344] xxvi. 6.
[345] xxiii. 40.